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“New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of the rich.”
—The Telegraph

Well, looks like the unthinkable has happened—Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. As the founder of a bro culture clickbait site who has been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, I hate to see this city going in such an obviously bad direction. If New York City is no longer going to be an unaffordable police state run by crooks, I’m taking my hard-earned sex-pest dollars elsewhere.

With a War Powers vote looming in the Senate, advocates are pointing to Trump’s past opposition to regime change wars.

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As we all know, the worst part about eating pizza is how the cheese gets stuck to the insides of your pockets. I can’t tell you how many good pairs of slacks I’ve ruined just because I love pizza and I lead an on-the-go lifestyle.

Like most people, I eat pizza every single day. I’m way too busy to sit down and eat it as a meal, so into my pockets it goes, even if that means my car keys are always covered in tomato sauce, my wallet is filled with pepperoni, and my iPhone’s charging port is clogged with soggy chunks of mozzarella.

But what can I do? Not put hot slices of pizza into my pockets? Just hold it in my hands? I’m a busy guy. How am I supposed to complete all of my daily errands if I have to hold hot slices of pizza all day long?

Answer all questions in the form of a song title.

1. The Rob Base Postulate

Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go right, and that the exact equal number (y) is necessary to make it out of sight (x = y), what is the minimum whole number required to achieve both outcomes?

2. Three Dog Night’s Loneliness Proof

Let L = loneliness, and let X = maximum L, which is bad.

If, theoretically, another number (2) can be as bad as X , and there are no whole numbers since X that are more L, complete the statement: “X = ___”

3. Paul Simon’s Missing Elements Theorem

Let N = the number of ways to leave your lover.

Four examples of N are given:

England is a constructed space — and the English countryside in particular is an ideologically constructed space. Right-wing concepts of the English countryside, informed by historical, cultural, ethnic, and class-based accounts, offer exclusionary representations of England. This is nothing new. The sense of a ‘timeless and forever England’ has often been invoked and weaponised by […]

Your breath is a powerful tool for managing your emotions – a psychiatrist explains the science and three proven techniques

- Video by Dr Tracey Marks

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Citizens of Myanmar describe what daily life is like in their isolated, war-torn nation

- by Aeon Video

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As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?

- by Ville Lähde

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As a hospital chaplain, I watched lives end, faiths fracture and certainties crumble. My job was holding hands in the dark

- by Nettie Reynolds

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“I shouldn’t have lost my fingers,” one detainee said of ICE guards’ failure to get him the care a doctor prescribed.

The post New York’s Largest ICE Prison Dogged by Allegations of Shoddy Medical Care appeared first on The Intercept.

Beware the hungry grass. In more superstitious times, Irish people would attribute sudden sharp attacks of hunger to walking on féar gorta, ground cursed by the restless ghost of a famine victim concealed beneath. The Irish for ‘hungry grass’ differs by just a fada — an accent — from  fear gorta, ‘hungry man’. We don’t […]

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York has horrified the whole US political establishment, giving hope to everyone desperate for an alternative.

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Maurice Mitchell and Amanda Litman discuss the lessons from Tuesday night, as Democrats and progressives prepare for the midterm elections.

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